Glossary

 abbreviation  lexical valency (or valence, collocability)

 acronym  lexicography
 affix  lexicology
 affixation  lexicon
 amelioration or elevation (a semantic shift of  metaphor
meaning)  metonymy
 antonym(s)  morpheme
 antonymy  motivation
 archaism(s)  narrowing of meaning (also restriction or
 assimilation (of a loan word) specialization)
 back-formation  neologism
 blending (or telescoping)  obsolete words
 borrowing(s) (also loan word(s))  occasionalism
 bound morpheme  onomatopoeia
 clipping  paradigm
 Cockney  paradigmatic relations
 cognate, cognate word  phrasal lexeme(s)
 collocation  phraseological fusions (idioms)
 compound (word)  phraseological unities
 connotation  phraseological units
 conversion  phraseology
 coordinative (or copulative) compounds  polysemantic words
 denotation  polysemy
 derivation  prefix
 derivative(s)  prefixation
 dialect  productive, non-productive affixes
 differential meaning (of a morpheme)  reduplication
 distributional meaning (of a morpheme)  root (morpheme)
 etymological doublet(s)  semantics
 etymology  slang
 euphemism  Standard English
 extension (also generalization or widening) of  stem
meaning  stylistic synonyms
 free morpheme(s)  subordinative (often called determinative)
 functional meaning (of a morpheme) compound
 homograph  suffix
 homonyms proper (syn. absolute, perfect)  suffixation
 homonymy  synchronic approach
 homophone  synonym(s)
 idiographic synonyms  synonymy
 idiom  syntagmatic relations
 Immediate Constituents (ICs)  term
 inflection  thesaurus
 juxtaposition  Ultimate Constituents (UCs)
 lexeme  word class